Ensuring Future Performance
Traditional performance management tools detect, diagnose and help resolve application performance problems quickly when they threaten to harm the business. However, these applications are designed to address only near-term concerns - not to forecast performance into the future. Performance problems are more often being patched, not fixed, and troubleshooting continues on a daily basis. Only a "past-and-present" focus is available.
These tools typically provide little or no assistance for forecasting the impact of growth plans, hardware upgrades and consolidations, or merger and acquisition activity on service delivery and performance. A firm understanding of what will happen in the future is required to optimize the use of existing infrastructure and support new and upcoming performance requirements throughout the organization.
Proactive Performance Management (PPM) solutions add significant value to traditional performance management tools. While today's tools focuses on "plugging the leaks," PPM allows you to "steer the ship." IT management and staff can readily understand how applications and infrastructure will respond to the inherent changes brought about by:
- Additional users
- Increased transaction volumes
- Application and database design changes
- Hardware changes
- Ever-increasing system complexity
The BEZ PPM solutions also allow you to use the performance data captured from other sources to directly feed PPM forecasts of evolving requirements.